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This is a list of notable
librarians and people who have advanced libraries and librarianship. Also included are people primarily notable for other endeavors, such as politicians and writers, who have also worked as librarians.
List of people known for contributions to the library profession
A–E
Laura Bush , First Lady of the United States and librarian, reads a book to children in a school library in Texas.
Ada Adler
Mary Eileen Ahern
Camila Alire
Edna Allyn – first librarian of the
Hawaii State Library
Lester Asheim
Ashurbanipal II
Sarah B. Askew – pioneered the establishment of county libraries in the United States
Basil Atkinson
Davinder Pal Singh – founder of the
Panjab Digital Library
Derek Austin
Winifred Austin – pioneer of UK Library for the blind
Henriette Avram –
MARC standards developer
Antoine Alexandre Barbier
John Davis Barnett – Canada
John J. Beckley – first Librarian of Congress; politician
Pura Belpré – librarian and author
Sanford Berman
Bob Berring – law librarian
John Carlo Bertot – library educator, researcher, editor of The Library Quarterly
Anastasius Bibliothecarius
James H. Billington – 13th librarian of Congress; historian
Robert H. Blackburn – former chief librarian of the University of Toronto
Thomas Bodley – founder of the
Bodleian Library ; English diplomat; 1545–1613
Arna Bontemps – author, bibliographer, and
Fisk University librarian
Daniel J. Boorstin – 12th Librarian of Congress; historian
Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield – as the Detroit Public Library's first African-American librarian, expanded its
African-American literature collection
[1]
Aase Bredsdorff (1919–2017) – Danish library inspector specialising in children's literature
Wallace Breem – novelist and law librarian
Suzanne Briet
Frank J. Burgoyne (1858–1913) – author and librarian at Lambeth Libraries
Edward Dundas Butler – translator and senior librarian at the
Department of Printed Books, British Museum
Lee Pierce Butler
Andrew Carnegie – Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who financed
thousands of libraries around the world
Leon Carnovsky
Daniel J. Caron
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Mayme Agnew Clayton
Cecilia Cleve (d. 1819) – Swedish pioneer librarian
Morris L. Cohen – attorney, law librarian and professor of law at the
University at Buffalo ,
University of Pennsylvania ,
Harvard Law School and
Yale Law School
Marjorie Cotton – first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia
Andrea Crestadoro
Charles Ammi Cutter
Laura Dallapiccola – Italian librarian and translator
John Cotton Dana (1856–1931)
Robert Darnton
Lorcan Dempsey
Beryl May Dent – mathematical physicist, technical librarian at Metropolitan-Vickers, honorary secretary of ASLIB branch
Melvil Dewey
William S. Dix
Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey (1906–1983), Head of Library at West Virginia State University
Mollie E. Dunlap
Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko
Linda Eastman
Margaret A. Edwards
El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti – seminal figure in professional librarianship in Egypt
Theresa Elmendorf
Miriam Eshkol
Luther H. Evans – 10th Librarian of Congress
Woody Evans
Oliver Everett
Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani – first female University Librarian at
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
F–M
Johann Albert Fabricius – bibliographer
Mary Cutler Fairchild – pioneer library educator
Adele M. Fasick – historical fiction writer, library science scholar, professor
David Ferriero – former M.I.T librarian and current
Archivist of the United States
Anette Fischer (1946–1992) – librarian and human rights activist
Herman H. Fussler
Elizabeth Futas – director of the
University of Rhode Island 's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Mary Virginia Gaver
Helen Thornton Geer – ALA Headquarters librarian, author, consultant, and professor
Johann Matthias Gesner – bibliographer
Kenneth MacLean Glazier Sr. – Canadian librarian
Eliza Atkins Gleason – first African American to receive doctorate of Library Science
Frederick R. Goff – incunabula scholar
Michael Gorman
Jan Gruter – scholar
Camilla Gryski
Helen E. Haines
Spencer Hall – librarian of the
Athenaeum Club, London
Adelaide Hasse
Peter Havard-Williams – librarian educator
Carla Hayden – public librarian, former ALA President, 14th Librarian of Congress
Frances E. Henne
Wolfgang Herrmann – librarian; member of Nazi Purification Committee
Caroline Hewins
John Howard Hickcox Sr.
Ted Hines
Cecil Hobbs – American scholar of Southeast Asian history, head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress, a major contributor to scholarship on Asia and the development of South East Asian coverage in American library collections
[2]
Judith Hoffberg – art librarian
Zoia Horn – American librarian jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
Laura E. Howey – American librarian, educator, social reformer
Jean Blackwell Hutson – chief of
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Thomas James
Anne Jarvis
Thomas Jefferson – sold his library to the
Library of Congress
[3]
Charles Coffin Jewett
Carleton B. Joeckel
Virginia Lacy Jones – major figure in the integration of public and academic libraries
Mildred M. Jordan – president of the
Medical Library Association and medical librarian at Emory University
E. J. Josey
Gene Joseph – founding librarian of the
Xwi7xwa Library at the
University of British Columbia and the first librarian of First Nations descent in British Columbia,
Canada
Muhammad Siddiq Khan
Mohammad Khatami – former President of Iran; previously Head of National Library of
Iran
Frederick Kilgour
Mary A. Kingsbury – American school library pioneer
Anastasiya Kobzarenko
Judith Krug – forty-year leader of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya – wife of
Lenin
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
Philip Larkin
Louise Payson Latimer
Margaret Leiteritz – painter who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian
Anne Grodzins Lipow – founder of Library Solutions Institute and Press
Audre Lorde – 20th-century US poet and activist
Eleanor Young Love – African-American librarian from Kentucky
Seymour Lubetzky
Roderick Samson Mabomba – Malawian librarian
Archibald MacLeish – 9th Librarian of Congress; Pulitzer Prize poet
Alison Macrina – founder of the
Librarian Freedom Project
Patrick Magruder – 2nd Librarian of Congress; politician
Mary Helen Mahar – president of the
New York Library Association in 1950
Margaret Mann – library educator, particularly cataloging; founding faculty member at University of Michigan library science program (1926)
Allie Beth Martin
Harry S. Martin – former Head Librarian,
Harvard Law Library
Kathleen de la Peña McCook – library scholar, public librarian, free speech advocate, and author
John Silva Meehan – 4th Librarian of Congress
Florence Milnes – first
BBC librarian
August Molinier – French historian
Eric Moon – editor of
Library Journal
Anne Carroll Moore – pioneering children's librarian
Everett T. Moore – freedom of information
Elizabeth Homer Morton – important contributions to development of Canadian libraries
[4]
Isadore Gilbert Mudge – edited Guide to Resource Works
L. Quincy Mumford – 11th Librarian of Congress
Alan Noel Latimer Munby – English librarian, bibliographical scholar and author
Ludovico Antonio Muratori – Italian librarian, archivist and historian
Muskan Ahirwar – at 9 years old she created a community library for children in the
worker's colony where she lives.
N–Z
One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments
Librarians noted as spouses of national leaders
See also
References
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